7-18-2017 GALLATIN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING

The Gallatin County board of education met Tuesday night with a lot on the agenda. All board members were present with the exception of Bradly Rahe. New student board member Maggie Wright was present for her first meeting, she is the daughter of county attorney John “Spike” Wright and Barbie Wright. After a lengthy closed session the board voted 3-1 on a vote of no confidence, against school superintendent Travis Huber. Board member Chad Murray said he felt the board was being extorted into hiring for a position and read the letter they received. Board Chairman Hargis Davis had questions over the fuel bills on what the school was being charged. The Board voted to rebid the fuel contract, after it received a complaint on the wording of the bid proposals. The contract stated it would be awarded to one bidder, but was broken down after the bids were received by Gallatin County School Superintendent Travis Huber. A special meeting has been called for 7/26/2017 to bring in Southern Petroleum and the other bidders to explain how they bid and what their prices were base on. This will give the School Board members a better understanding of pricing.
Board members Chad Murray, Hargis Davis and Tony Foster are being named in a civil suit filed at the Gallatin County Court House by attorney Ed Massey. The complaint file stated they failed to provide emails under the open records act. Mr. Massey sets on the Boone County Board of Education. In addition, Ed is a Past President of the Kentucky School Boards and the National School Boards Association as well as a Director on the Board of the National PTA. He is representing unnamed parties from the school system against the three defendants. In speaking with the three members, they feel they are being sued for their votes to cut days and positions to save the district money. GCVideonews.com will keep you informed as this progresses and more information comes available.
The Board also ask the Architect of the new 1.9 million dollar bus garage to be present to answer questions. The board has been asking since February of 2017 to have someone answer questions on the building, the board voted to table the motion to pay the firm until someone answered questions. The firm has agreed to be at the special called meeting.

5 Responses to “7-18-2017 GALLATIN COUNTY SCHOOL BOARD MEETING”

at about 1 hour and 33 minutes into the video the chair votes for a confusing motion and then actually states “I don’t even know what the hell your motion was.”
And thats how we run the Gallatin county School system

If that is the only thing you got from this meeting, then you are part of the problem in this county. I did not understand what was being said after the motion was made and seconded, with all the rambling Mr. Murray did during the discussion. Mr. Davis I would like to know why all the departments that you mentioned in the meeting does not have to be there to give a report on the status of their respective schools. When Dr. Perkins’ was there she made them give the reports. Is this something you changed or the Superintendent changed. How can the board know what the conditions are in each building if they are not giving the reports. I want to commend you and the other board members that are finally making a difference in our school system by bringing accountability to them. I noticed in the video the representative elected from our district was not even there. After the next elections we should have someone else from our district in there to help the three of you out. All he has ever been was a yes vote for the school anyway. Keep digging and cut the wasteful spending that has been going on there for years now, the tax payer’s here in the county appreciates everything you and the other two board members are doing to bring change and accountability to our schools.

Saddened, when I said “I did not know what the hell that motion was”, was not because I did not understand it. It was because the motion was so long. So please have your facts straight when quoting me and know what I was talking about.

Happy as you might have noticed some of your post was removed, the student school board member is off limits. She is a very nice young lady and it does not matter to me who her parents are. Any student school board member is off limits and I hope you can understand why. If you want to say anything about the rest of us, I am fine with that and will not delete parts of your post. But thank you for your support on the other issues.

To answer your other question, I do not know when the principles stopped giving reports to the board, I will try and find out for you.

Hargis, thak you and Amy for giving people of the county the opportunity to sound off. Having said that now let me sound off. It just seems to me that the majority of the members of the board of education is more concerned about keeping taxes down than they are the welfare of the school system it’s staff, faculty and it’s students. While doing more with less might work well out in the private sector it works just the opposite in our educational system. Starting in per school through to the PhD level. One of the first things that those that rate colleges look at is student to staff ratio when rating colleges. It’s really no different in pre K through K-12 in our public schools systems. One can’t get a Cadillac education for the price of a stripped down Fiesta. It takes $$ to support a school system, any school system. It is my personal feeling that if a school board member feels that the tax payers concerns are on equal par to the welfare of the students and our school system, then that member or members are sitting on the wrong board. I don’t like to pay taxes either, but I never looked at school revenue as a tax; but instead an investment in our future. Since our future rests solely with each graduating class across this great nation each year. Hargis, thanks again for giving me the opportunity to express to you in writing what I have told you personally in the past.. By the way; your auto correct sucks!!!!!